All Building articles in 03 August 2012
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Construction headed for 'perfect storm'
Total construction output has fallen to a level 9% lower than it was in 2002, an analysis of official economic statistics has reveals
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CIC embarks on new BIM push
The Construction Industry Council has launched a push to raise awareness of BIM around the country through a series of regional hubs
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Balfour Beatty wins £110m Edinburgh uni project
Balfour Beatty has won the job to build the University of Edinburgh’s £110m student accommodation project
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Vinci tipped for £100m Gatwick job
Exclusive: Vinci in race with Balfour Beatty and Mace for job to build a new baggage facility and a replacement for Pier 1
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Milton Keynes brings Mouchel deal back in-house
Milton Keynes council is bringing an outsourced support services deal with Mouchel back in-house
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WH Brown goes under with loss of 130 jobs
Dundee-based contractor W H Brown Construction has been placed in receivership with the loss of 130 jobs
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FT Gordon collapsed with £500k debts
Exclusive: Scores of SMEs and the taxman to be left thousands of pounds out of pocket after firm liquidated
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Ministers advised to axe affordable housing rule
Montague Review to recommend affordable housing obligations be dropped in exchange for supply of private rented homes
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Trocadero to become a 'pod' hotel
Plans to transform London’s iconic Trocadero building into a Tokyo-style pod hotel have been approved by Westminster council
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Minister promised PM swift action on Olympic marketing gag
Olympics minister’s letter to David Cameron more than three months ago promised swift resolution to the ongoing problem
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Green light for Salford's £430m PFI housing scheme
Salford PFI project involves 1,600 new homes and the refurbishment of a further 1,200 homes
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Laing O'Rourke wins third Crossrail station
Laing O’Rourke has bagged the £35m main construction contract for the Crossrail station at Custom House
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Kier picks up Oxford Spires academy job
Contractor Kier and architect Nightingale Associates and have won the £6.4m Oxford Spires Academy job.
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Bouygues to build £65m Essex uni project
Bouygues Development and housing provider Derwent Living get go ahead for £65m accommodation project
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Boris tells PM to 'stop pussyfooting around' on infrastructure
Boris Johnson urges government to get started on big infrastructure projects, including an airport in the Thames estuary
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Berkeley's tower on the Thames gets green light
Developer’s Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners-designed 28-storey Eastbury House residential scheme is approved
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Bell rings for Morgan Sindall's £19m Hull school project
Contractor Morgan Sindall is primed to start work on £19.2m schools project in Hull, as a part of the final stages of Hull’s £400m Building Schools for the Future Programme.
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Laing O'Rourke puts 125 Bison staff on notice
Contractor puts a further 70 jobs at risk at its second Bison factory in Derbyshire, bringing to 125 the total number staff at risk of redundacy
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Laing O'Rourke to close Bison concrete factory
Laing O’Rourke is proposing to close its Bison concrete factory in Scotland, putting 55 jobs at risk